Though it’s been commonly accepted in Europe and Japan for may years, it’s finally creeping into common knowledge here in the U.S. that the medium of comics, or “graphic stories”, is not limited to — a: an audience of kids, and b: stories about steroid disasters in leotards grimacing and punching each other.
Comics is simply a medium, one that can be used to convey or talk about essentially anything, including reportage.
A.D. New Orleans After the Deluge is a graphic story about the disaster (both natural and political) of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.
The story is published by Smith Magazine and written and drawn by Josh Neufeld, a member of the ACT-I-VATE comics collective and author of The Vagabonds, with consulting and editing from Jeff Newlet and Miles VanMeter.
A.D. was initially published as a webcomic, which you can still read online at Smith Magazine, and has now been released in book format.
There is a video interview on the making of the story on YouTube.
[Via Salon]
